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Ruffin, Edmund:

THE FARMERS' REGISTER. VOL. I. NO. 1.

Richmond: Edmund Ruffin, Editor and Proprietor, June, 1833. 64pp. Stitched and untrimmed. Browned, else Very Good. This issue discusses matters dear to Ruffin's heart, particularly agriculture and Negro Slavery in Virginia, its geography and resources. He provides detailed reporting and essays on the Virginia Assembly's debates on abolishing slavery; slaves'..... More

Price: $350.00

[Missouri Democratic Committee]:

"CLARK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC MEETING | AT A RESPECTABLE MEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY OF CLARK COUNTY MET AT WATERLOO ON THE 8TH DAY OF JUNE 1840. COL. ROBERT P. MITCHELL WAS CALLED TO THE CHAIR, AND JOHN W. LUKE APPOINTED SECRETARY WHEN THE FOLLOWING PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS WERE ACCEPTED. "WHEREAS MAJ. WM. MCDANIEL, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE FROM THIS DISTRICT, AND DOCT. ABRAHAM WAYLAND FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM THIS COUNTY BEING BEFORE THE PEOPLE. ... RESOLVED THAT WE DO HIGHLY APPROVE OF THE ENLIGHTENED & PATRIOTIC ADMINISTRATION OF MARTIN VAN BUREN OUR PRESENT PRESIDENT..."

[Waterloo, MO]: June 8, 1840. Large folio, folded to 7-1/2" x 12-1/2". [3], [1 blank] pp. Completely in ink manuscript. Old folds, Very Good. Clark County is located in farthest northeastern Missouri, along the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers, bordering Iowa to the north and Illinois to the east..... More

Price: $750.00

Champomier, P.A.:

STATEMENT OF THE SUGAR CROP, MADE IN LOUISIANA, IN 1861-62, WITH AN APPENDIX.

New Orleans: Cook, Young & Co., 1862. x, [2 blanks], 46, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched in original printed yellow wrappers. Near Fine. This document lists each planter by Parish, and his output for the year. The Introduction is dated August 18, 1862, after the Federal invasion of New Orleans. Jumonville..... More

Price: $275.00

Harris, Wm. H.:

LOUISIANA PRODUCTS, RESOURCES AND ATTRACTIONS, WITH A SKETCH OF THE PARISHES. A HAND BOOK OF RELIABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATE. PUBLISHED FOR THE STATE BY WM. H. HARRIS, STATE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION. SENT FREE ON RECEIPT OF 9 CENTS POSTAGE.

New Orleans: New Orleans Democrat Print, 1881. Original printed and illustrated stiff paper wrappers [some loosening]. [2], 248 pp plus frontis portrait of Governor Wiltz; attractive folding map, in color, noting available homesteads. Light dusting, stitched. Very Good. Slavery "fostered a system of large plantations worked by slaves, discouraged the..... More

Price: $450.00

["Negro Sam Lee"] Waite, Obed:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, 6 JANUARY 1829, TO COLONEL ROGER JONES OF WASHINGTON, D.C., THE BROTHER OF THOMAS AP CATESBY JONES, ABOUT MISSING SLAVE SAM LEE; AND AN UNRELATED LAW CASE ABOUT DIVISION OF THE "FAIRFIELD NEGROES, " IN WHICH COLONEL JONES AND WIFE HAVE AN INTEREST. "I HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT NEGRO SAM LEE LEFT THIS PLACE SOME TIME BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND HAS NOT RETURNED. IT SEEMS THAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO THE CITY TO SEE HIS MASTER MEANING AS I UNDERSTAND MR. THOMAS APP. C. JONES, SUPPOSED TO BE NOW AT THE CITY . I HAVE THOUGHT IT BEST TO WRITE TO YOU ON THE SUBJECT AS THERE MAY BE SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO COM. JONES BEING AT THE CITY: AND IT IS PROBABLE THAT IF SAM DID GO TO THE CITY HE PAID YOU A VISIT. IT IS SAID HE HIRED A HORSE OF A MAN HERE, WHO IS UNEASY ABOUT THE HORSE, FEARING SAM HAS GONE OFF NOT TO RETURN . . . I AM NOT CERTAINLY ADVISED, WHO SAM DOES BELONG TO: THE LAST HIRE I PAID FOR HIM, WAS PAID ON THE ORDER OF MR. JOHN MURPHEY, ACTING AS AGENT FOR MRS. ANN TURBERVILLE WHO CLAIMS HIM . I HAVE RECEIVED HIS HIRE FOR LAST YEAR (FORTY DOLLARS) . RESPECTFULLY YOURS, OBED WAITE. "P.S. IN PASSING OVER THE CHANCERY DOCKET THIS DAY IN THE COUNTY COURT, A SUIT WHICH HAS BEEN LONG ON THE DOCKET IN THE NAME OF YOURSELF AND WIFE, AGAINST THE OTHER HEIRS OF WILLIAM B. PAGE DECD WAS CALLED - THIS IS A SUIT FOR A DIVISION OF THE SLAVES BELONGING TO THAT ESTATE . . ."

Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia: 1829. Folio, 8-1/4" x 13-1/4". [3], [1] p. Completely in ink manuscript. Addressed on final page to "Col. Roger Jones | City of Washington" and light postal cancel dated Jan. 9 at Winchester; with manuscript docket note in a different hand: "On the subject of the..... More

Price: $1,000.00

[Virginia Slave Hire] Bullitt, Cuthbert:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JAMES KEITH OF FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DECEMBER 29, 1769: "MR. BROWN SENDS UP THE BEARER FOR HIS NEGROES, AND THE BALLANCE DUE HIM, FOR THEIR WAGES, HE ALSO TELLS ME, THAT YOU EXPECTED HE WOULD ABATE SOMETHING IN THE SUM, AS YOU WERE IMPOSED ON IN THE CHARACTERS OF THE SLAVES, IF THAT BE TRUE I KNOW NOT WHO WAS THE PERSON, THAT GAVE YOU THEIR CHARACTERS. I NEED NOT TELL YOU THAT I DID NOT, AS IT IS A FACT YOU MUST BE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH, PLEASE TO RECOLLECK, ALL THAT PASSED AT NEVILLES WAS, THAT I INFORMED YOU & SOME OTHERS, THAT I HAD THREE LIKELY FELLOWS TO HIRE OUT THE INSUING YEAR, AT ELEVEN POUNDS EACH, & THEIR CLOATHS, YOUR ANSWER WAS, THAT IT WAS TOO MUCH, & SO THE CONVERSATION ENDED. SOON AFTER YOU SENT DOWN YOUR OVERSEER FOR THEM, TO HIM I TOLD THEIR QUALITIES, & THAT THEIR RUNNING AWAY WAS A PRINCIPAL MOTIVE WITH THEIR MISTRESS FOR HIRING THEM OUT, I EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO TELL HIM, THAT UNLESS HE TOOK GOOD CARE, THEY WOULD LEAVE HIM ON HIS WAY UP ON THE WHOLE, THAT THE NEGROES MAY NOT BE SO GOOD AS YOU EXPECTED MAY BE TRUE, BUT THAT YOU HAD ANY FARTHER CHARACTER OF THEM FROM ME, THAN THAT THEY WERE LIKELY YOUNG FELLOWS MUST BE A MISTAKE. I AM SIR YR MOST OBT. HUMBLE SERVT./ CUTH BULLETT. DECR 29TH 1769."

Frederick County, VA: 1769. Single sheet folded to 6" x 7-3/4". [2], [1 blank] [1-docketed] pp. Completely in ink manuscript. Old folds, some staining which does not obscure text. Small hole through last page from wax seal [no text loss]. Addressed to Keith in Frederick County, and docketed ["Bullitt's Letter..... More

Price: $600.00

Virginia Slave Sale:

SLAVE BILL OF SALE: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT JAMES FOUSHEE OF THE COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND FOR & IN CONSIDERATION OF FIFTY POUNDS CONT MONEY TO ME IN HAND PAID HAVE BARGAINED SOLD & DELIVERED TO HENRY SISSON ONE NEGRO BOY CALLED WILLOBE WHICH SD NEGRO I DO WARRANT & FOREVER DEFEND FROM ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHAT SO EVER AS WITNESS MY HAND & SEAL THIS 23D OCTOBER 1760. [signed] JAMES FOUSHEE/ WITNESS WM . CARR LANE, SAMUEL DUNN.

Northumberland, VA: 1760. Manuscript bill of sale, 7-1/2" x 3 7/8". Prepared completely in ink manuscript. Docketed on verso, "At a Court Held for Richmond County the 7th Day of June 1762. This Bill of Sale from James Foushee to Henry Sisson was proved by the oath of William Carr..... More

Price: $600.00

[Confederate Army]:

ARMY REGULATIONS ADOPTED FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH LATE ACTS OF CONGRESS. REVISED FROM THE ARMY REGULATIONS OF THE OLD UNITED STATES ARMY, 1857; RETAINING ALL THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR OFFICERS OF THE LINE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. ALSO, ARTICLES OF WAR, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.

Richmond, Va. West & Johnston, Publishers, 1861. 198, [2- Index] pp. Title page with rubberstamp and light soil, verso with ink accession number. Text lightly to moderately spotted. Bound in later buckram, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gum label at spine base. This foundation Confederate imprint also issued from several..... More

Price: $1,250.00

[Confederate Imprint] Map:

PLAN OF THE WESTERN SEAT OF WAR.

[New Orleans]: Published by H.P. Lathrop; Jules Manouvrier, Lithographer, [1861 or 1862]. Oblong 24" x 18-3/4". Map lithographed by Jules Manouvrier. A few shallow chips to blank extremities; a couple of closed tears to blank margins expertly repaired. Very Good. The map shows Kentucky, Tennessee, and portions of North Carolina..... More

Price: $3,000.00

Spain:

COTEJO DE LA CONDUCTA DE S.M. CON LA DE EL REY BRITANICO...HIS CATHOLICK MAJESTY'S CONDUCT COMPARED WITH THAT OF HIS BRITANNICK MAJESTY, AS WELL WITH REGARD, TO WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE 14TH OF JANUARY OF THIS YEAR 1739, AS TO WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SINCE; UNTILL THE PUBLICATION OF REPRISALS AND DECLARATION OF WAR. PRINTED BY AUTHORITY AT MADRID BY ANTONIO MARIN.

London: Printed for T. Cooper... [1739]. 63, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern vellum. Early leaves dusted, minor scattered foxing. Else Very Good. "In Spanish and English, and relates principally to affairs in America" [Sabin], with particular emphasis on Florida. The book charges that the King of England authorized..... More

Price: $1,250.00

[Nat Turner Insurrection] [Harrison, Jesse Burton]:

REVIEW OF THE SLAVE QUESTION, EXTRACTED FROM THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, DEC. 1832; BASED ON THE SPEECH OF TH. MARSHALL, OF FAUQUIER: SHOWING THAT SLAVERY IS THE ESSENTIAL HINDRANCE TO THE PROSPERITY OF THE SLAVE-HOLDING STATES; WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO VIRGINIA. THOUGH APPLICABLE TO OTHER STATES WHERE SLAVERY EXISTS. BY A VIRGINIAN.

Richmond: Printed by T.W. White, 1833. 48pp. Disbound, early and late gatherings foxed, browned. Good+. In a modern folding case. Nat Turner's slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, brought to reality the South's worst nightmare. The incident sparked the only concerted effort by a Slave State to abolish slavery..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Payne, William H.:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, BY CONFEDERATE BRIGADIER GENERAL PAYNE, TO BAPTIST CLERGYMAN JOHN WILLIAM JONES, A CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN DURING THE WAR, THANKING JONES FOR HIS RECENT DEFENSE OF JEFFERSON'S DAVIS'S WARTIME LEADERSHIP AND REFLECTING ON THE WAR.

Warrenton, VA: July 26, 1885. Ink manuscript on lined paper. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, printed on rectos only. A couple of ink smudges, one expertly repaired closed tear [no loss]. Very Good. "My dear Dr. I have just read your letter anent the Hampton Roads conference, & cannot..... More

Price: $875.00

LETTERS OF THE LATE BISHOP ENGLAND TO THE HON. JOHN FORSYTH, ON THE SUBJECT OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY:...

England, John [Bishop of Charleston]:

LETTERS OF THE LATE BISHOP ENGLAND TO THE HON. JOHN FORSYTH, ON THE SUBJECT OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY: TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED COPIES, IN LATIN AND ENGLISH, OF THE POPE'S APOSTOLIC LETTER, CONCERNING THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, WITH SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, ETC.

Baltimore: Printed and Published by John Murphy, 1844. xi, [1 blank], [13]-156 pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [spine wrapper chipped at head and tail]. Near Fine. The Irish Patriot Daniel O'Connell had claimed that "the Pope's denunciation of the African slave trade" also included a denunciation of Slavery. O'Connell's..... More

Price: $450.00

"I DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT GEORGE DAVIDSON HATH TAKEN UP A NEGRO MAN, NAMED JIM WHO SAYS HE...

[Jim, A Negro Man Named]:

"I DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT GEORGE DAVIDSON HATH TAKEN UP A NEGRO MAN, NAMED JIM WHO SAYS HE BELONGS TO MR. DANIEL MCNEILL OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, WHICH NEGRO HE BROUGHT TO WINCHESTER TO PUT HIM TO JAIL AND WHEN BROUGHT BEFORE ME I ORDER'D THE SAID DAVIDSON TO CONVEY THE SAID NEGRO TO HIS MASTER CONSIDERING THE CHARGES TO BE MUCH LESS THAN PUTTING HIM IN GAOL, THEREFORE DO DESIRE THE MASTER OF SD. NEGRO TO PAY THE SD DAVIDSON THE REWARD FOR TAKING UP SD NEGRO IF ANY [.] ALSO MILEAGE [.] GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AUGST. 14TH 1778. EDWARD MCGUIRE. "P.S. I AM APPREHENSIVE MR. GEORGE RENICKS IS THE MASTER OF SD NEGRO. E.M.G."

Hampshire County, VA: 1778. 4-1/2" x 8-1/4". Prepared completely in ink manuscript, Lightly toned, chip at blank margin. Very Good. Docketed on verso: "August 16th, 1778 | I do hereby assign over unto John Smoot the securing & charge of the within mentioned Negro as per Mr. McGuire's advice as..... More

Price: $500.00

A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT; INTENDED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT FOR THE STUDY...

Tucker, N[athaniel] Beverley:

A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT; INTENDED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT FOR THE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. BY N. BEVERLEY TUCKER, PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM AND MARY, AT WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1845. 464pp. Scattered toning and light spotting. Very Good in modern cloth. Tucker insisted that sovereignty resided only in "the people": "governments are but creatures, and the people the creator." When Virginia decided to join the Union, that sovereignty is "no less sacred." "Tucker's books..... More

Price: $650.00

VIRGINIA CONTRACT AVERTING A DUEL BETWEEN TWO RICHMOND GENTLEMEN: ALEXANDER MOSELEY, EDITOR OF...

[Contract Averting a Duel] Daniel, William Jr. and Alexander Moseley:

VIRGINIA CONTRACT AVERTING A DUEL BETWEEN TWO RICHMOND GENTLEMEN: ALEXANDER MOSELEY, EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND DAILY WHIG, AND JUDGE WILLIAM DANIEL, JR., OF THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS, OCTOBER 20, 1849.

Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". [1], [3 blanks] pp. Neat ink manuscript on lined paper. Final page lightly dusted. The agreement is a contemporary copy, with the entire document and signatures in the same handwriting. Very Good. A war of words erupted between Editor Moseley and Judge..... More

Price: $750.00

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